While Ding Yun cooperated with the肇事者 (肇事者 - perpetrator) family in lawsuits, her high school senior mock exams went by without a single miss.
And her scores kept improving with each exam.
She consistently outperformed her grandson, sometimes by a significant margin.
Only occasionally would she let her grandson win, by a few points.
This, of course, was all meticulously planned by Ding Yun.
During the mock exams, while scoring a perfect score might have been difficult, achieving seven hundred and twenty or seventy-three points was quite easy. However, considering that such scores might instill despair in others, particularly her grandson, making him feel it was impossible to catch up.
Therefore, she deliberately adjusted her scores based on her grandson's past performance. Her scores were only about thirty points higher than his final results, which was enough to surpass him while still making her grandson, Liu Chang'an, believe.
That his grandmother wasn't *that* much better than him.
That these thirty points were still achievable.
At this point, with Ding Yun also helping him with his studies, his grades would naturally improve, wouldn't they?
A plan that killed two birds with one stone.
Ding Yun naturally continued with this approach.
And to prevent her grandson from becoming complacent, or from feeling that he couldn't catch up after repeatedly scoring twenty to thirty points lower in mock exams, and thus giving up.
Periodically, Ding Yun would intentionally slack off, deliberately scoring a little lower than her grandson. This was to make him feel that his efforts were paying off, that he was catching up. Then, Ding Yun would pretend to be spurred on by him.
She would put in extra effort for a few days.
And then surpass him again in the next exam.
She would tell him he had become complacent and needed to study harder and pay more attention to study methods, all while tutoring him.
After repeating this cycle several times.
Her grandson, Liu Chang'an's, daily performance saw a considerable improvement. By the final mock exam, his total score had reached seven hundred and two. This score would allow him to choose freely from most schools.
While Ding Yun stimulated and helped her grandson improve his grades through this method, the school also used Ding Yun as an example to motivate and encourage the current batch of senior high school students.
After each mock exam.
Most teachers would say:
"Look at Grandma Lin. She's over sixty years old this year. Her brain, her memory, aren't they worse than yours? But look at her scores. In her first mock exam, her score already surpassed most of you. And her scores kept improving with every subsequent mock exam.
Now look at yourselves. Some of you, and I won't name names, you know who you are. While she improves her scores every time, some of you are stagnating, and a few have even regressed. What are you trying to do? Do you still want to take the college entrance exam and go to university?
Compared to you, Liu Chang'an is doing quite well. He was already a good student, and now, with his grandmother's encouragement, his scores are significantly improving in every mock exam. You should learn from him.
Stop learning bad habits all day and start learning the good ones."
Although this motivational method might not work for everyone, it did have some impact on certain students. Thus, when the results of the final mock exam were released, the school's relevant leaders and teachers, with a quick calculation, found that the average score of the current senior high school students had increased by thirty points compared to the previous year.
While feeling happy and excited, they also understood that their teaching methods hadn't changed. The only difference was the addition of a sixty-something-year-old Grandma Lin.
Consequently, many began to ponder in private.
If one Grandma Lin could have such a significant stimulating effect on the students, what if they recruited a few more? They would surely achieve wonders, producing a multitude of students for Qingbei University.
However, this could only be a thought, because they all knew that not every elderly lady could stimulate students. What stimulation could an elderly person who only scored one to two hundred points on exams provide?
And how easy was it to find an elderly lady who could score so high?
To put it bluntly, even if these teachers took the college entrance exam papers now, they might not score very well. Years after graduation, apart from the subjects they taught daily, their memories and knowledge of other subjects had long since become unfamiliar and faded.
And these were teachers. If other people took the college entrance exam at a certain age, their scores would only be worse.
As the final mock exam concluded, the school soon entered the final sprint stage for the college entrance examination.
At this point, it was clearly no longer a review phase. It involved constantly practicing past college entrance exam papers, past mock exam papers, and teachers constantly explaining these papers, along with imparting exam techniques and points to note.
Of course, this was mainly for ordinary students.
Students with better grades generally knew their own weaknesses, so they primarily self-studied, asking teachers only for help with problems they couldn't solve. This was the stage of true gap filling.
It wasn't like the ordinary students were trying to patch up the sky.
At this time, even Ding Yun began to seize the opportunity, using the last remaining time to tutor her grandson. Not only did she tutor her grandson, but she also started making predictions about the exam questions.
Based on the general types of past college entrance exam questions, the books published by this year's exam setters, and their past question-setting patterns, she roughly estimated the scope and types of questions for this year's exam.
And she directly informed her grandson.
She had her grandson practice these areas extensively.
Because to achieve honors like "one family with three Jinshi" or "father and son both as Tan Hua" (top scholars), the final college entrance exam scores would definitely need to be excellent. If they could only score in the top one or two hundred, or even one to two thousand in the province, they would at most earn the title of "grandparent and grandchild university students."
This sounded rather unimpressive.
Ding Yun desired the title of "grandparent and grandchild top scholars."
Moreover, since she studied science and her grandson studied arts, as long as their final scores were high enough, the possibility of both becoming provincial top scholars existed.
Ding Yun herself had no problem, it was mainly her grandson. His score in the last mock exam was only slightly over seven hundred. This carried some risk for winning the top scholar.
Although this score offered an advantage, it wasn't an absolute one. Therefore, Ding Yun naturally had to offer some assistance with question prediction, hoping to ensure her grandson could secure the top spot in the arts category this year.
Amidst this busy period.
Time passed remarkably quickly.
Before long, it was the day of the official college entrance examination. After everyone entered the examination hall, Ding Yun became a trending topic on local social media due to her age. Even before the first exam ended, the news had spread across the internet.
Some offered encouragement, while others criticized.
Some believed she was responding to a call to action.
Others felt she was seeking attention.
For a time, it indeed caused quite a stir.